user accounts

You will be using this blog a lot in the next two semesters as you develop your design arguments, carry out research, and do many other activities contributing to your ultimate thesis projects. I would like everyone to jump in and learn what you need to know to get the most benefit from this resource. I have posted a bunch of instructional messages dealing that you may find helpful. Please take a look at these.

To use the blog, you do not need a Gmail account, although it is a very useful thing to have, and will give you access to many of Google's amazing free online tools and cloud computing capabilities. However, if you do want to use a Gmail account, you will need to link your newschool.edu email to the Gmail one. To do this: go to www.gmail.com, and if you do not have a gmail account, click on "Create New Account". Once you have set up the account, link to your newschool.edu account by going to Settings, then click on "Accounts and Import". Where it says, "Check mail using POP3, click on the button labeled, "Add POP3 email account". Then, enter your "yourname@newschool.edu", and click "Next Step". You then need to enter your newschool.edu password. That's it. If you want messages that you send from your gmail account to look like they come from your newschool account, you can do that by clicking on "Send mail as" under "Settings".

Posting video

There are two ways to post videos to the blog.

1. You can embed a YouTube video. To do this, find the video on YouTube, then click on "embed". Click on Edit HTML in your post. Paste the code from YouTube into your post. Here's an example:

2. You can upload a video directly from your computer.

Posting images

Of course, it's very easy to add images to posts. Images can be uploaded from you hard drive, like in the example below. You can also place an image in a post from using an Internet URL.

caption: this image shows me at a meeting

at the Staten Island Ferry terminal

Welcome to the blog!

Hello,

My name is Steven Landau, and I am the moderator of the Parsons Product Department Fall 2009 Thesis Blog. I'm also the Design Research Instructor for the class. This blog will allow students and faculty to post materials related to the class.

I'm looking forward to working with everyone!

steven